Augusta Rohrbach

Augusta Rohrbach received her PhD at Columbia University. She is
the author of Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and
the U.S. Literary Marketplace (Palgrave 2002) and the
forthcoming Thinking Outside the Book as well as numerous
articles on subjects dealing with 19th century literature and
culture. She is an Associate Professor of English and Editor of
ESQ: A Journal of American Literature.